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Turner, B.L. 2012. A new species of Achyropappus (Asteraceae: Bahieae) from Querétaro, Mexico. Phytoneuron 2012-83: 1-—
5. Published 12 September 2012. ISSN 2153 733X

ANEW SPECIES OF ACHYROPAPPUS (ASTERACEAE: BAHIEAE)
FROM QUERETARO, MEXICO

BILLIE L. TURNER
Plant Resources Center
The University of Texas

Austin, Texas 78712

ABSTRACT
A novel species is removed from the fabric of A h ides (H.B.K.) A. Gray
and described as Achyropappus queretarensis B.L. ee a nee: With the new addition and
of the G endemic, A. depauperatus (S.F. Blake) B.L. Turner, the genus now

contains three species. Akey to the species is provided, along with a photograph and line drawings of
the novelty concerned; a map showing their distribution of the three species also is provided.

KEY WORDS: Asteraceae, Bahieae, Achyropappus, Achyropapp h ides, Achyropapp
depauperatus, Mexico, Guatemala

Preparation of an upcoming treatment of the tribe Bahieae of Mexico in my ongoing Comps
of Mexico (cf. Turner 2012) has occasioned the present paper. The novelty described here in
Achyropappus, along with previously known taxa, now provides three names for the genus, as
follows:

1. Ligules of ray florets white, 4-8 mm long; plants mostly 20-80 cm high
Achyropappus anthemoides
1. Ligules of ray florets yellow, 1-3 mm long; plants mostly 6-20 cm high.

2. Involucral bracts ca. 3 mm long, widest near apex; pappus scales ca. 0.2 mm long; Guatemala
Achyropappus depauperatus
2. Involucral bracts ca. 4 mm long, widest near middle; pappus aa A —2 mm long; Mexico

pappus queretarensis

ACHYROPAPPUS QUERETARENSIS B.L. Turner, sp. nov. Figure 1 Type: MEXICO.
Querétaro. Mpio. de Colén: sobre el camino al Cerro Zamorano, matorral xerdfilo,
abundante in lugares perturbados, 2600 m, 30 Sep 2002, J. Rzedowski 54056 (holotype: TEX)

R bling A. anth ides H.B.K. but a smaller, more delicate plant having smaller leaves
(1-2 cm long vs 2-4 cm), ray florets yellow and 3 to a head (vs white and mostly 4—5 to a head), and
stems and foliage sparsely glandular pubescent (vs densely so).

Annual herbs 5—18 cm high. Mid-stems much-branched below, sparsely pubescent
with both glandular and/or eglandular hairs. Leaves (mid-stem) tripartite, mostly 1-2 cm long, the
lowermost opposite, the upper alternate; petioles winged, 2-10 mm long, ciliate with spreading
eglandular hairs. Capitulescence a terminal array of 1-5 heads forming a loose panicle 2-6 cm
across, the ultimate peduncles 1-5 cm long. Heads ca 10 mm wide (rays excluded), 4-5 mm high;
outer involucral bracts 5, ca 4 mm long, 3 mm wide, broadest near the middle, the margins scarious.
Receptacle epaleate, plane, ca 1.2 mm across. Ray florets 3, pistillate, fertile, ligules yellow, 2-3
mm long. Disc florets yellow, 20-30 per head; corollas 5-lobed, ca 2 mm long, the throat ca 0.5 mm

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long. Achenes black, smooth, 3—4-sided, 2-3 mm long, the outer series to some extent pubescent
with villous hairs, the inner series mostly glabrous; pappus of ca 8 ribless scales, 1.0-2.0 mm long.

Additional specimens examined: MEXICO. Guanajuato. Mpio. De San Luis de la Paz: 9
km al NE de Chupaderos, sobre el camino a Mesas de Jesus, 2250 m, 8/11/92, Rzedowski 51869
(TEX). Hidalgo. Mpio Zimapan: on felsitic ledges in open thorn scrub area at Puerto de la Estancia
ca 53 km NW of Ixmiquilpan, ca 2000 m, 21 Oct 1974, Cronquist 11267 (LL).

The species name derives from the state of Querétaro, whence the type.

When originally discerned I considered the idea of describing the novelty as but a variety of
A, anthemoides, but their allopatric distribution and lack of intermediates swayed my thinking to that
expressed here.

ACHYROPAPPUS ANTHEMOIDES H.B.K., Nov. Gen. & Sp. (folio ed.) 4: 203, pl. 390.
1820[1818]. Schkuhria anthemoides (Kunth) Wedd., Chlor. Andina 1: 74. 1855[1856]. Bahia
anthemoides (H.B.K.) A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 15: 40. 1879. TYPE: MEXICO. Edo.
Mexico. "Crescit in agro frigido Tolucensi, prope pagum Islahuaca, alt. 1380 hex.," Sep,
Humboldt & Bonpland s.n. (holotype: P).

The type of this species was described from near Toluca in considerable detail by H.B.K. and
illustrated by a full page plate. A detailed description (including the present Achyropappus
queretaranus) and full page illustration (presumably of A. anthemoides, sensu the present author) was
provided by Villareal et al (2006). Chromosome number, 27 = 20. Figure 2.

Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, and Edo. Mexico; oak-juniper woodlands, 2600-3000 m; Aug—Sep.

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reportedly grows at somewhat higher elevations than A.
piieiceerane (2600 3000 m vs. 2200-2600 m). The species superficially resembles Villanova
achillaeoides (tribe Perityleae, sensu Panero 2007) but is readily distinguished by its larger rays and
pappose achenes.

ACHYROPAPPUS DEPAUPERATUS (S.F. Blake) B.L. Turner, Phytologia 92: 349. 2010. Bahia
depauperata S.F. Blake, Brittonia 2: 352. 1937. Type: GUATEMALA. Dept.
Huehuetenango. Heavily grazed alpine pasture, S side of the Sierra Cuchumatanes, along
trail between Huetenango and Soloma, 3200 m, 16 Sep 1934, A. Skutch 1271 (holotype:
GH!). Figure 2.

Known to me only by the type.

Blake, in his original, very detailed description, ont sald present taxon to be better
positioned in the genus Bahia, comparing it to B. h GA h ides) but
Baldwin et al. (2002), using DNA data, retained both genera. Strangely, Nash and Williams (1976), in
their account of Asteraceae for the Flora of Guatemala, failed to account for the taxon concerned.

In short, Bahia depauperata seems best positioned in the genus Achyropappus, along with its
presumed closest relative, A. anthemoides (if not A. depauperatus), an affinity suggested by the
characters given in the above key.

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igure 2. Sketches of 4. depauperatus (from holotype, GH): (a) habit [6 cm high]; (b) head [4
mm high]; (c) ray floret [3.5 mm high]; (d) disc floret [3.5 mm high]; (e) stamens and style
branches [0.03 mm long]; (f) pappus scale [0.02 mm long]. Produced by the well-known

lustrator, K. Douthet of the University of Michigan, from NSF funds provided to the author

many years ago now.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My research companion, Jana Kos, edited the paper, providing constructive input. Thanks to
Dr. José Panero for his comments in review and to GH for the loan of appropriate material.

LITERATURE CITED

Baldwin, B.G., B.L. Wessa and J.L. Panero. 2002. Nuclear rDNA evidence for major lineages of
Helenioid Heliantheae (Compositae). Syst, Bot. 27: 161-198.

Nash, D.L. and L.O. Williams. 1976. Asteraceae. Flora of Guatemala. Fieldiana: Botany 24 (12):
1-603.

Panero, J.L. 2007. Bahieae, in Kadereit and Jeffrey, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 8:
433-439.

Turner, B.L. 2012 (in prep.). Helenieae, in Comps of Mexico. Phytologia Memoirs 16.

Villareal, Q., J.A. Villasenor, and R. Medina L. 2006. Helenieae, in Flora del Bajio 140: 1-54.